Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
—Sinclair Lewis
A Writer’s Power
Category: Writing
Imagination
“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
— Philip Jose Farmer
Creativity
The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.
— Sylvia Plath
Rejection
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
–Sylvia Plath
Slipping…
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
—Joyce Carol Oates
Book lovers never sleep alone.
—Anonymous
Wrestling dragons…
Fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us that dragons exist but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
—G. K. Chesterton
Ideas are like rabbits…
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—John Steinbeck
Like Breathing…
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.“
― Annie Dillard
Poisoned by emotion…
I think that to write well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice—they all make fine fuel.
—Edna Ferber
There’s no greater agony…
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou
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